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After we changed our traveling direction from south-east to west we have been stucked in Spain. The climbing in Sicily made us keen again and we could not resist, to travel to Spain. After an unbelievable cold night in Siurana we traveled along the coast in direction south, slept at the beach and then took a closer look at Chullia.
Chullia is a lovely gorge with lots of crags. There we slept a night at the parking lot in the town and another night down in the gorge. The climbing there is fantastic but again it was too cold during the night and and new years eve came closer and closer and we didn't fancy to spend this night on our own. In Chullia they told us in Sella would be a climbing refuge and of course there should be enough people to celebrate new years eve. We arrived at nighttime in Sella and weren't able to find the refuge – daylight wouldn't make it much easier because the refugio doesn't exist anymore. So we parked our car at the parking lot in Sella and slept there. There we met Zita and Fernando form Barcelona. They also traveld in a Van. We spent some nice days together in the area. At the 31st they went back to Barcelona and we took a closer look at the Orange House. The Orange House seems to be the only climbing loge in this area at the moment. Carefully we asked if we could stay there and if they have planned any kind of celebration. The answer of a nice English guy with a can of beer in his hand was: yes, but we don't drink alcohol, eat soy beans and do some meditation at midnight. We thought in terms of humor we are speaking the same language and joined in. We stayed longer and longer and we thought loudly that we could stay much longer in the middle of this limestone mountains. And promptly we became the offer to rent a small house in Finestrat's older city. The Girl, that used to live in this house moved to Chullia.
Since February we we've been living in this house, taking our breakfast in the sunshine on our terrace and go out climbing with the Orange House people.
Our Dog is also doing well. He is grown up and since a week he is not alone anymore. We got a second dog. A nice Labrador/Pointer German shepherd mix – also black and two and a half month old.